Capitalism Institute··Thursday, October 29, 2026, 3:07 PM
Christa Pike’s 1995 torture killing of classmate returns after she survives lethal injection
Christa Pike’s 1995 torture-murder of classmate Colleen Slemmer is back in the spotlight after the death-row inmate survived two lethal-injection doses, and her lawyers now want her sentence commuted. In January 1995, 18-year-old Christa Pike and her 17-year-old boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp, lured 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer to a remote stretch of the University of Tennessee’s Knoxville
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